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How to make work SAS 7.1.2 GUIs on Mac OS X Leopard (PowerPC and Intel)

Some users are reporting that SAS 7.1.2 GUIs do not work on Mac OS X Leopard, either on PowerPC or Intel CPU.

e.g. when running the main GUI(sas) the following error is produced:

% sas
sas:- Executing (routine): sas
dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _FT_Load_Sfnt_Table
Referenced from: /usr/X11R6/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib
Expected in: /Software/xmmsas_20070708_1802/libextra/libfreetype.6.dylib

dyld: Symbol not found: _FT_Load_Sfnt_Table
Referenced from: /usr/X11R6/lib/libfontconfig.1.dylib
Expected in: /Software/xmmsas_20070708_1802/libextra/libfreetype.6.dylib

Trace/BPT trap

The solution we have found to work is to copy the /usr/X11R6/lib/libfreetype.6.dylib file to $SAS_DIR/libextra. In the message text shown above, the $SAS_DIR/libextra directory is

/Software/xmmsas_20070708_1802/libextra

Before proceeding to copy the above mentioned library, please rename the library libfreetype.6.dylib already existing in such a directory:

cd $SAS_DIR/libextra
mv libfreetype.6.dylib libfreetype.6.dylib_tiger_powerpc

After such a change, SAS GUIs should work normally. We have observed that during the execution of the GUIs, some warning messages are issued on the terminal.